Local Woman

In a world ravaged by a hostile political landscape and the relentless drones of white supremacy, Local Woman vigilantly pushes back against the idea that hardening one’s self is our only path of resistance. Here, Jmz’s poems assert power by donning the silken garments of vulnerability—prayers eager to confess the human desire to be held, needed and believed. Local Woman is an elegant throne where a knife sleeps beneath its velvet exterior. What a blessing.

Local Woman is a tribute to the resonating intimacies of what it’s like to be a woman and relish it. A sensual entanglement with the universe, I too wish for Jupiter

The Local Woman of this third blazing collection from Jzl Jmz is mother, ex, sweetheart, and tireless lover who greets us from“hot bitch” “dirty dish dystopia.” The tenaciousness of Jzl’s poetic technique, her trademark spinning centrifuge of musical and literary references, straddle the line between echo and embodiment, coloring this lush and festering thing we call life. Local Woman is a heart-stopping, luminous, and timely book that we are so fortunate to have at every world’s end.